peccant
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Peccant \Pec"cant\, a. [L. peccans, -antis, p. pr. of peccare to
sin: cf. F. peccant.]
1. Sinning; guilty of transgression; criminal; as, peccant
angels. --Milton.
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2. Morbid; corrupt; as, peccant humors. --Bacon.
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3. Wrong; defective; faulty. [R.] --Ayliffe.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
158 Moby Thesaurus words for "peccant":
aberrant, abominable, abroad, adrift, all abroad, all off,
all wrong, amiss, arraignable, arrant, askew, astray, at fault,
atrocious, awry, bad, bad for, base, beside the mark, black,
blamable, blameworthy, cankered, carious, censurable, contaminated,
corrupt, criminal, culpable, damnable, dark, decayed, deceptive,
decomposed, defective, delusive, deviant, deviational, deviative,
diseased, disgraceful, distorted, errant, erring, erroneous, evil,
execrable, fallacious, false, faultful, faulty, festering,
flagitious, flagrant, flawed, foul, gangrened, gangrenous,
gone bad, guilty, harmful, heinous, heretical, heterodox, ill,
illogical, illusory, impeachable, implicated, improper, inaccurate,
inauspicious, inculpated, indictable, inexpedient, infamous,
infected, inferior, iniquitous, injurious, insalubrious,
insanitary, invalid, involved, knavish, low, malevolent, monstrous,
morbid, morbific, mortified, naughty, necrosed, necrotic,
nefarious, noisome, not right, not true, noxious, off,
off the track, out, pathogenic, pathological, perverse, perverted,
pestiferous, poisoned, polluted, putrefied, putrescent, putrid,
rank, reprehensible, reproachable, reprobate, reprovable, rotten,
rotting, scandalous, self-contradictory, septic, shameful, sinful,
sinister, sphacelated, spoiled, straying, suppurating, suppurative,
tainted, to blame, ulcerated, ulcerous, unfactual, unfavorable,
unforgivable, unhealthful, unhealthy, unhygienic, unkind,
unorthodox, unpardonable, unpleasant, unproved, unsanitary,
unskillful, unspeakable, untoward, untrue, unwholesome, unworthy,
vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wide, wrong
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